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| 1746 |
| | | Tartan and Highland dress are banned by the British government, in a prohibition not lifted until 1782 | |
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| 1746 |
| | | An earthquake destroys much of Lima, and an ensuing tidal wave engulfs its port at Callao | |
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| 1746 |
| | | Monsieur Passemont constructs in Paris a millennium clock which can record the date in any year up to AD 9999 | |
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| 1746 |
| | | French forces capture the British East India Company's fort of Madras | |
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| 1746 |
| | | The French commander Maurice de Saxe succeeds in occupying the entire Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1747 |
| | | A tribal leader, Ahmad Shah Abdali, is elected king of the Afghans in an event seen as the foundation of the Aghan nation | |
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| 1747 |
| | | Horace Walpole rents a small house, known locally as Chopp'd Straw Hall, with 5 acres of land. | |
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| 1747 |
| | | Samuel Richardson's Clarissa begins the correspondence which grows into the longest novel in the English language | |
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| 1747 |
| | | Cambridge Park is enlarged by Martha Ashe the property having been in the Ashe family since 1657. | |
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| 1748 |
| | | Systematic digging begins near Vesuvius, in an area where ancient fragments are often unearthed - soon discovered to be Pompeii | |
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